blue chamber

noun

Etymology

From the tale of Bluebeard.

Definitions

  1. A forbidden room.

    • “[…] Matty would scarcely find fault with my visiting their blue chamber. […]”
    • My mother dared not break the lock, as my father had prohibited any one from entering this, his blue chamber; and what was worse, he had the key.

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